Alstom Units to Build 51 MW Wind Farm for Turkey's Petkim

Turkish petrochemicals major Petkim Petrokimya Holdings [BIST:PETKM] said it has contracted the Spanish and Turkish arms of French heavy engineering company Alstom to install a 51 megawatt (MW) wind farm for 55 million euro ($76 million).

Under the deal, Spain’s Alstom Renovables Espana SLU and Turkey’s Alstom Power ve Ulasim AS will carry out engineering works, equipment supply, installation and commissioning of the wind farm, Petkim said in a bourse filing on Friday.

Petkim expects the wind farm to produce some 200 GWh of electricity per year.

The 27 MW first phase of the wind farm is planned to be put in operation in 2015, while the remaining 24 MW of the wind farm is expected to become operational in 2016, added Petkim.

Source:SeeNews